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Manifesting a PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE with Cat Golden

13 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube interview excerpt with Cat Golden describing her shift from clinical nursing to mentoring and leadership. She explains that her drive was to help people rather than practice medicine, recounts being advised to pause and realign, and describes initiating conversations and small actions to improve nurses' wellbeing at work, which opened broader dialogue among colleagues.

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I went into nursing because I wanted to help people. I did not go into nursing for the medicine. The things that made me a good nurse were the things that make me a great mentor, that make me great at what I do now. It was not the medicine. So. And I was always very clear on that.
So my mentor, she was like, you need to take a pause, because I was really forcing health coaching when I wasn't aligned with it. And so through the pause, what I realized when I had gotten rid of that distraction, that the people around me were so miserable, the nurses. So I just started doing things at work to help them, like, just purely because that's who I am and because I wanted the environment to be better. And then I started having conversations, and now we're talking about it a lot. And I would like to think I'm one of the people that opened the store. I know I am. Nurses were not saying two years ago, I don't feel good. It was not talked about. Like, I will never forget, there was one night at 2am when I walked into the break room at night, and I was like, so I think I'm going to start doing stuff for us. Like, why isn't anyone helping the nurses? Like, you guys? There is a better way. And I was like, don't you feel like this? And I started saying some of the ways I felt. The second I started that conversation literally opened up a floodgate. It was like therapy hour with Kat.